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EXPLANATION. 



In submitting this pamphlet to the reading 

public the author is impelled by but one 

motive, and that is, the hope that itmay arouse 

thought and encourage active exertion among 

those, in whose hands the destinies of this 

country are now placed. 

GEORGE SCHMIDT, 
{Good Hope.) 



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Chapter I, 



The Plan to dissolve the Union. 

It has long been evident to every thinking mind, that 
there was an intense hatred of Republican Institutions on 
the part of the rulers of Monarchical Governments in Europe, 
and the cause has been as evident as the result Republi- 
canism and Monarchy cannot both flourish together in one 
State, and no more can either continue in its strength and 
vigor, if rival nations, when one acquires an overmastring 
influence by its superior power. Especially is this true of 
the latter, when the former attains a position which renders 
the latter the inferior as a maritime or military power to that 
one, which acknowledges no superior in the State to the 
laws made by the people themselves, and whose executive 
officer is but the servant of the power which created both. 
The United States of North America had become the haven 
of safety to which the oppressed of all nations fled for secu- 
rity, and who thus became*of themselves one of the most ma- 
terial elements of our greatness, and brought along with them 
the most thorough and deep seated hatred of the tyranny 
which we then knew only by name : but they had felt its 
working, and when they touched our shores became not only 
Republicans in theory, but active Democrats in political life, 
and for which unmeasured scorn has been heaped upon our 
party. — Would to God that our own people had learned to 
prize our institutions as highly as did the foreigners whom 
our enemies so openly berated and despised ! It is a truth, 
which time will make only more apparent, that the aristocra- 
tic parties in Europe, at an early day, saw that the Repub- 
lic of the West must be destroyed, or that the term of their 
tenure as hereditary rulers of their various states, would be 
but a limited one. Our space precludes us from much more 
than referring to this subject, so full of food for sober thought, 
and replete with cause for anxcity to every lover of his coun- 
try and of free institutions throughout the world. 



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A half of a century had scarcely elasped after the Uni- 
ted States had declared their independence of the mother 
country, when the new republic had so enlarged its bounda- 
ries and increased its wealth and population, that the leading 
minds amongst the European Statesmen became satisfied, 
that if left to their uninterrupted growth, the new States of 
the Western world would soon attain overmastering power, 
and by the example of their success in self-government, spee- 
dily undermine the foundations of their own systems. None 
viewed the progress of this country with greater jealousy than 
did the leaders of the Tory party in England, and it is a well 
established fact in history, that trie inauguration of the move- 
ment which culminated in the release of the slaves of English 
planters in the West Indies, was procured through the far 
seeing hatred of English Statesmen & diplomatists toward 
the United States. — They reasoned justly, that by force 
alone this country never could be dissevered, and that the 
evil must be wrought among and by ourselves, to become 
operative for our destruction. They knew, as well as did 
Jefferson and others of our Statecmen, that the question of 
slavery was one which once started as a basis for the warfare 
of opposing political organizations in this country, would 
arouse a spirit of hostility between the free and slave states, 
which would, unless allayed by wise and concilitory effort, 
result in the disruption of the grelit Republic. But whilst 
England continued herself a slave holding power through her 
colonies, they were aware that she would continue powerless 
as the champion of freedom. It became neccessary therefore, 
that she should free her own slaves, before stepping to the 
van of the new reform, which was to be used as the entering 
wedge for Tie dissolution of these states. At a meeting of 
Statesmen of different nationalities in the city of London, 
shortly after the adoption of the measure referred to, it was 
stated by one of the eminent gentlemen present that "the 
English had, by freeing the slaves in the West Indies at such 
vast expense placed themselves foremost in history as philan- 
tropists." Another Gentleman replied, that "England 
would not have been found executing such costly philanthropy 
without there was a good speculation at the bottom of it. " 
This remark created great excitement, and which was only 
allayed by the prophetic words of one of the most eminent of 
the gentlemen present, and one deep in the councils of Eng- 



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lish diplomates and statesmen, as pointing his hand westward 
he said : "From the other side of the ocean the real payment 
of the twenty millions pounds may be expected with heavy 
interest ; our agents and missionaries from all Europe will 
attend to its repayment, 1 ' and then, for the first time, be- 
came apparent to the others present, the farsighted iniquity 
which lay concealed under the apparent humanity of the 
measure discussed. These facts are historical, and we of 
this* day feel and see the result. England at once became 
anti-slavery, and her agents, her newspapers, pulpit orators 
and social reformers, alljunited in a crusade against American 
slavery, which produced the desired result in firing the Puri- 
tan heart of New England, and in arousing her bigoted in- 
tolerance. From that time the work has gone steadily for- 
ward, and the result so ardently desired by the adherents of 
Monarchy, or in other words those who desired a centralized 
government seems near at hand. — Nothing can arrest the 
dissolution of these states, and secure the disappointment of 
the monarchical agents of European would be despots, but 
the success of the Democratic party at the polls in the com- 
ing Presidential election. It is a death struggle of Monarchy 
and Republicanism. The restoration of this country to its 
original integrity seals the fate of Monarchy forever — its dis- 
solution on the other hand ensures the destruction of all Re- 
publican government for centuries — No one, after our 
acknowledged failure, could be found so poor as to do it 
homage. 

England fears that her hold upon Canada would be en- 
couraged by the restoration of the Union, and the Emperor 
of France knows well, that in such event, the Empire he has 
created upon our borders, would be wiped out with a single 
blow from the giant power of the great Republic. Maximi- 
lian is but the agent of France and England, who sent him 
over here as an assistant to the rebel leaders of the South. — 
It must be apparent to every one that these countries would 
never have dared to inaugurate such a change, without really 
consulting the wishes of the Mexican people, unless they had 
considered the dissolution of these states as a foregone con- 
clusion, and calculated upon the aid of the Southern rebels 
in assisting to establish a Monarchy, and thereby secure the 
recognition of their own nationality and independence. It 



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must be apparent to the most unthinking, that these coun- 
tries alone, not taking into the account Austria, Prussia and 
the monarchical governments of Europe most deeply interes- 
ted in the stability of their systems, have a deep interest in 
the result of our war, and as a matter of course will exert all 
the power they can wield now to defeat the nominee of the 
Chicago convention. They know well, as does every 
one in this country, that the success of the Democracy will 
be but the forerunner of peace, and in all human probability 
of a reorganization of these states upon a basis which will 
stand the test of time. They know that in such event the 
great Republic, with a vast army of trained veterans, and a 
navy second to none in the world, will not fold its hands quietly 
and forget and forgive the insults and outrages which we 
have been obliged to submit to, under this rascally admini- 
stration for the last three years. 

Chapter II. 



SLAVERY. 

All men, who are entitled to be called patriots in rhe North- 
ern states, have come to the conclusion that, no matter what 
terms of settlement may be agreed upon finally between the now 
beligerant sections, none must be consented to, which will admit 
of the division of the former United States into two independent 
nations. If the Republican party succeed however, such will be 
the invitable result. Mr. Lincoln has stated and his party press 
has endorsed his position, — that unless the Southern Confederacy 
will lay clown their arms and consent to place themselves at our 
feet as a subjugated people, who will consent to take from us 
such terms as we choose to grant them — and which includes as 
all the world knows — confiscation of property, we will have no 
peace with them. This is not all, this most sagacious ruler at 
Washington has declared in a pnblic note, which has all of the 
strength of an official document, that no propositions for peace 
will be entertained at all, unless the confederate states will do, 
what under their constitation their central government has no 
power to do, viz : abolish slavery. 

The utter folly and dishonesty of this proposition is at once 
apparent upon a moments reflection. — 

The question of state rights was the leading idea which was 
at the bottom of the rebellion, and which reduced to the original 
causes producing it, is what to day sustains it, and slavery 



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is merely an Incidental question. Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa 
can have slavery within their borders the next year if they choose 
to do so, as well as Massachusetts, New York, and New England 
did formerly, and by virtue of what right ? That of State sover- 
eignity, upon whieh the South now insist, and which Mr. Lin- 
coln calls upon them to surrender, and which he has the cool 
blooded impudence to do, while we retain the power ourselves 
which we deny to them. Would this be a union of these states 
under our constitution as our fathers framed it ? Is it not on the 
contrary, a mere trick of the chief, the head and front of the dis- 
union party ? We shall have occasion to enquire hereafter who 
are the traitors ? The folly of attempting to elevate the negro 
race to a level of that of the white, is sufficiently apparent to all 
who have given the subject any reflection. We will add here an 
extract or two from such sources as are entitled to credit, as 
most, if not all of our readers will admit. 

Mr. Anthony Trollop an Englishman who has written a 
book on Jamaica says : 

"A servile race peculiarly fitted by nature for the hardest 
"physical work in a burning climate. The negro has no desire 
"for property strong enough to induce him to labor with sustained 
"power. He lives from hand to mouth . In order that he may 
"have his dinner and some small finery, he will work a little, but 
"after that he is content to lie in the sun. This, in Jamaica, he 
"can very easily do, for emancipation and free trade have com- 
bined to throw enormous tracts of land out of cultivation, and 
"on these the negro squats, getting all that he wants, with very 
"little trouble and sinking in the most resolute fashion to ^he 
"savage state. Lying under his cotton tree, he refuses to work 
"after ten o'clock in the morning. "No, tank'ee, massa, me 
"tired now f me no want more money." Or by the way of variety 
he may say : "No workee no more ; money no nuff ; workee no 
"pay." And so the planter must see his cane foul Avith weeds, 
"because he cannot prevail on Siimbo to earn a second shilling 
"by going in to the corn-fields. He calls him a lazy nigger, and 
"threatens him with starvation. His answer is : "No massa ; 
"no starvee now, God send plenty yam." These yams, be it ob- 
served, on which Sonibo lives, and on the strength, of which he 
"declines to work, are grown on the planters own ground, and 
"probably planted at his own expense." 

The same author says that a half of the sugar estates, and 
more than one half of the coffee plantations, have gone back into 
a state of busji. So far on the Jamaica Emancipation. Now let 
us see, what the London Times says on the West Indian freed 
slaves and their children : 

"There is no blinking the truth. — Years of bitter experience 
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* 'unanswered, of sufferings derided, of insults unresented, of 
"contumely, patiently endured, have convinced us of the truth. 
"It must be spoken" out boldly and energetically, despite the 
"wild mockings of howling cant. The freed West India slave 
"will not till the soil for wages. The free son of the ex-slave is 
"as obstinate as his sire. He will not cultivate lands, which 
"he has not bought for his own. Yams, mangoes and plantains — 
"these satisfy his wants. He cares not for your cotton. Sugar, 
"coffee and tobacco, he cares but little for, and what matters it 
"to him, that the Englishman has sunk his thousands and tens of 
"thousands on mills, machinery and plantations, which now 
"totter on the languishing estates that for years has only retur- 
ned him to beggery and debt ? He eats his yams and sniggers 
"at "Buckra". We know not why this should be, but so is it ! 
"The negro has been bought with a price, the price of English 
"taxation and English toil. He has been redeemed from bondage 
"by the sweat and travail of some millions of hard working Eng- 
lishmen ! Twenty millions of pounds sterling — $100,000,000, — 
"have been distilled from the brains and muscles of the free Eng- 
lish laborer, of every degree, to fashion the West India negro 
"into a "free, independent laborer." "Free and independent" 
"enough he has become, God knows, but laborer, he is not, and 
"so far as we can see, never will be. He will sing hymns and 
"quote texts, but honest steady industry he not only detests, but 
"despises !" 

Such, is the candid admission of the official organ of the 
British Government, uttered some years ago, when a British 
lord submitted a serious proposition in parliament to return to 
slavery in the West Indies under the name of apprentiship or 
cooley indenture. 

Now let us read a correspondence by Mr. La Monte from 
Mexico to a Paris Journal in 1843. 

"Fourteen years ago Mexico abolished slavery in all her de- 
apartments, and the Central American states followed her ex- 
"ainple. A worse measure for the slave, as w r ell as the republic, 
"could not possibly be imagined. It was immediately discovered 
"that the freed slaves would not work, and the Mexican Congress 
"was forced to pass the act of peonage, a species of slavery the 
"most atrocious that ever disgraced a civilized nation. Under 
"the old system the master was compelled to provide for his 
"slave in sickness, health and old age. In fact, the slave had all 
"his temporal wants supplied by force of self interest anfl law, 
"and never troubled himself about a thought of the morrow. 
"Under the present system, he is compelled to hire himself to 
"some one for such length of time as the employer designates, 
"who, with an eye to profits, surveys the laborer, makes calcu- 
lation how long he will live as an able bodied man, and then 



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■"hires him for that period, stipulating for wages barely sufficient 
"to subsist the mans family in health. The law compells a spe- 
"eitic performance of this contract, and when old age and sickl- 
iness comes on, the poor peon is turned loose to feed upon the 
"scanty pittance of reticent charity, or spend the remnant of his 
"days amid the squalid want and vermin of an almshouse. In 
"all the essential conditions that guarntee ease and happiness, 
"the peon's condition is as much below that of the former slave 
"as a Paris mendicant is below a millionaire on the Boulevard." 

It is not compassion for the negro clearly, which impels the 
Republican leaders to do what they pretend to do. They parade 
before the world to day, that they are carrying on this gigantic 
war with all its attendant evils for the enfranchisement of the 
negro slaves of the South. How false this is, those, even the least 
observant can perceive. — Nearly a half million of the poor blacks 
have been already sacrificed, and the ruin of the balance, which 
may be left after this unholy and causeless slaughter is comple- 
ted, will be speedily accomplished by the demoralization which 
it will create amongst them. 

This is the point, to which, the sainted philanthropists of 
the revolutionary Republican party leads — and the result will 
be, that in the name of liberty for the slaves, and by the most 
wretched false pretense, they will lead him to destruction, and leave 
no guaranty whatever for the fredom of those who may escape . 
the terrible war in which they so unwillingly take part. 

Chapter- III. 



Before the Republican party came in power — 
and at present. 

In the year 1700 the white population of the United States 
was 3,172,464 — and in the year I860, 26,973.843, and the total 
value of the domestic manufactures for the vear ending June 1st 
1860, reached the aggregate value of 1900,000,000 Dollars. The 
growth of this branch of American labor appears therefore to 
have been in much greater ratio than that of the white popu 
lation. Its increase has been 123 prCt. greatear than the white 
population by which it was princially produced. Assuming 
the total value of the manufactures in i860 to have been already 
stated, the product per capita for every man, woman and child 
in the Union was 60, 60-100. If to this amount were added the 
very large aggregate of mechanical productions below the annual 
value of $500 of which no official cognizance is taken, the result 
would be one of startling magnitude. This simple statement ex- 
hibits the astonishing growth of this country, and furnishes a 



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basis for calculation ps to what would have been our position 
among the nations of the earth in the course of another half cen- 
tury, had not the demon of civil war evoked by the spirit of 
puritan intolerance and a causeless sectional jalousy, which has 
all but wrecked the brightest hopes of mankind in the destruc- 
tion of our country. 

What; might we not have been, and what are we now ? The 
contrast is so painful that we dislike to dwell upon it, but duty 
compels us to present it. 

Instead of ranking among the first of the foremost powers of 
the earth, in all of the essential materials of national wealth and 
prosperity — based as they always have been, and always must be 
upon the security and permancy of individual rights, and the 
stability of the laws which secure them — look at our condition 
now, after three short years of Republican rule, which started 
and has continued in its mad course upon the assumption that 
their theorys were superior to, and of more binding obligation 
upon the conscience of the citizen, than any and all constitu- 
tions and laws enacted under them. We will enumerate a few of 
the evils fastened upon us by ignorance, intolerance and fana- 
ticism. 

First. They have interfered with the ballot box by intimi- 
dation, and carrying on the election through the intervention of 
armed men. 

Second. They have ruined our commerce. 
Third. They have ruined our agriculture. 
Fourth. They have allowed our gold and silver to be expor- 
ted, and in its place have given us a irredeemable paper currency, 
that daily sinks lower and lower, and will before a year is passed 
be as worthless as the Confederate notes are now. 

Fifth. They have arrested peaceable citizens, not being 
soldiers nor subject to the operation of martial law in any 
respect, and without warrant have confined them in dungeons. 

Sixth. In no case where citizens have been arrested for al- 
leged crimes without warrant, and confined, as in all cases they 
have been, without legal authority, have they ever been vouch- 
safed a trial of any kind, much less by a jury of their country 
men, as the laws demand, and the constitution was made to se- 
cure to every one. — Each man who reads this pamphlet to day, 
is liable to be treated in the same manner, and where is his re- 
dress ? Ask the thousands of unfortunate Democrats, who have 
been guilty of expressing their opinion heretofore, and have 
wasted their lives in casemated dungeons for years for doing so ! 
Seventh. They have suppressed loyal papers by force of 
arms, wherever such presses have been guilty of differing in 
opinion from the men, who by their blundering conduct of this 
wretched war for more three years have evinced their want of wis-- 



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doni and forecast. Whenever a sterling, Union loving patriot and 
editor, has endeavored through his paper to point out palpable, 
and what he considered errors ruinous to the cause of the North, 
he has been arrested, his paper suppressed and himself impriso- 
ned. Many such men have thus been ruined, and are now dying 
by inches in dungeons, or in rare instances are at large only by 
reason of having been able to obtain exorbitant bftil. In the 
darkest hour for the Southern Confederacy Jefferson Davis never 
dared to attempt such outrages, even in his own Capital. 

Eight. They have conscripted the people by military force 
contrary to the constitution, which leaves the right of drafting 
the military power of the different states to the states themsel- 
ves. If we needed any evidence of the wisdom of such provision 
in our constitution, we could find more than sufficient in the re- 
sult of the number of attempted drafts* by the wretched burles- 
que of an administration which disgraces the name of the Ame- 
rican people noAv. 

Mnth. They have practically, and in the most servile man- 
ner, yielded up the cherished Monroe doctrine and allowed in a 
cowardly way, even if they did not openly invite (he Creation of 
a Monarchy upon our very borders. The American historian 
will blush, when obliged to record this most Bhameful proceeding 
upon the part of an administration, betwixt whose measures the 
future will not pause to select which to condemn, so sweeping 
will be the verdict to be rendered by the impartial men, who 
shall occupy our places. 

Tenth. They have proclaimed martial law over all of the 
loyal States, in a time of profound peace throughout their bor- 
ders, and at the time when the only evidence of the existence of 
war amidst their populations, was the eagerness exhibited by 
the people in crowding the ranks of the regiments which were 
gathering to march to the distant fields of conflict in the South- 
ern states. 

Eleventh. They have at the same time by the arbitrary and 
illegal edict of an ignorant buffoon, created President by accident, 
as it may justly be claimed, destroyed the only safe guard of the 
liberty of the citizen in the loyal states, by the unconstitutional 
suspension of the writ of Habeas corpus, and by which act the 
liberty of the citizen, throughout all of these law abiding and 
loyal states (and who have been spending their means^ in men 
and money most lavishly for the restoration of constitutional or- 
der) is rendered as insecure, as if he had been a citizen of Poland 
and a revolutionist in the recent war against Russia. The power and 
jurisdiction of the Courts created by the constitution, are entirely 
ignored by this one most illegal act, and no man, no matter 
what his station in life may be, has any longer the protection of 
the laws, but is, on the other hand, subjected to the mere will 



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and arbitrary caprice of some shoulder strapped vagabond, whose 
temporary power renders him superior to the coustitution and 
the laws enacted pursuant to it, in every state, by which we have 
heretofore been guided and protected in our persons and property. 
—Think of this ! 

Twelfth. They have imposed upon a willing people, taxes 
which wo^d create a revolt in any other civilized nation under the 
sun . We have accepted this burden, thus far willingly, for the 
sole and simple reason, that we supposed we were incurring such 
obligations for the purpose of restoring the Union as our fathers 
created it. Too late, perhaps, have our eyes been opened to the 
fact that we have been warring and spending countless sums in 
money, and invaluable lives by the thousand, for the one sole pur- 
pose of "freeing the negro". — The North sprang to arms, like one 
man, obeying the high, holy and patriotic impulse, which led them, 
to lavish blood and treasure without stint, for the restoration of 
the American Union.— -How many men would now go willingly to 
the war under the recent draft ? Let the facts passing under our 
eyes daily, answer. 

Tbe action of the 37th Congress/ the record of whose proceed- 
ings will be a lasting disgrace to the American people, will have 
one event recorded upon its annals, which will reflect credit upon 
it. — The only man, who upon the floor of Congress recalled to 
the mind of the country the men of other and better times, was the 
lamented Crittenden . For a moment the tide of fanaticism and utter 
intolerance, seemed to have been checked by his wisdom and patrio- 
tism, but it did not continue long stayed ; the refluent wave of abolitio- 
nism soon swept over and obliterated all traces of the vase and benefi- 
cent measures proposed by the statesman and patriot who can no 
longer lift his warning voice amongst us, and for the abandonment 
of which we are now almost literaly clothed in sack cloth and ashes 
as a nation. 

The confiscation law followed, the edict freeing the negroes was 
promulgated, and in short, nothing was left undone, which the veri- 
est secessionist in South Carolina was not aching to have accomplished 
on the part of our congress and President. We hope that our readers 
will not fail to peruse theWade and Davis pronunciamento, and which 
even Garret Smith, sterling and long tried abolitionist as he is, and 
thoroughly devoted to the success of Lincoln, could not but admit 
was true, in all of its essential particulars as to the charges made, 
but deprecated the policy of attacking Mr . Lincoln at this critical 
period in our National affairs. It is perhaps fortunate for the Ame- 
rican people that they do not agree with Mr. Smith as to the pro- 
priety of their telling the truth, and unmasking the hipocracy of 
the man who has caused and may yet cause more bloodshed than did 
Attila or Alaric. 

Look for a moment at our national credit. Four years since 
and United States securities could not be purchased in any of the 
money marts of the world, aud the reason was that their intrinsic 
value was such, they were not in the market. They were too 
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They were better than gold, for they represented gold, and the 
high comparative interest they bore, made them the kind of secu 
rity which capitalists sought after most . Now look at the quota- 
tions of the foreign markets ? and we see, that the rebel loan, based 
upon the uncertain expectation of being able to send cotton through 
the blockade we are keeping up, stands higher to day in the money 
markets of Europe than do our own most approved securities ! 
Comment is needless, No man can tell, what our future shall be, 
when, as we are now being obliged to expend §2,000,000 daily and 
the only means of realizing the neccessary amount is to be found 
in the printing prsss in the Treasury Department. The recent 
financial experience of the South, will be our own, before another 
year shall have elapsed. Tho man who cannot see this is blind in- 
deed . 

Chapter T\^. 



MONROE DOCTRINE. 

Jf there is one priueiple upon which the thinking minds of our 
republic have, from the commencement, been agreed upon, it is 
that of the "Monroe Doctrine." Its practical enforcement has from 
the beginning been neccessary to the continued existence of our own 
states as a nationality. It became preminently American, and re- 
ceived from all quarters, North and South, an unanimous approval. 
It was closely interwoven with our ideas of Territorial expansion; 
and had as fully become a part of our ideas of binding constitutional 
law, as if the same had been duly created and was a fundamental 
part of such constitution. It was not only a matter of pride on onr 
part, to retain the vast continent of North America as a field, 
whereon none but republics should found empires, but it included as 
esential political policy, the idea of self protection . A monarchy 
with a European at tht head of it, who dates his regal extraction 
for hundreds of years pant, and with a connection closely allying^ 
him with nearly all of the ciowned heads of Europe, upon our im- 
mediate borders ! It is enough to make the shades of Jefferson, 
Monroe and Jackson appear amongst us, as they would do, if Divine 
Providence had allowed such intervention by the departed sages 
and patriots of that country they did so much to create and pre- 
serve. 

The present administration have surrendered the whole quest- 
ion, which heretofore no one European government has dared to 
raise with us. Mr. Sewards letters to our embassadors abroad 
declare plainly, that if the Mexican people are willing to change 
their form of government to that of a monarchy, we of all peoples, 
should be the last to object to it, because it involved the principle 
of self government . This specious argument is worthy of that ad- 
minisration, which has been deceiving the people of the^ North from 
its commencement, and from beguiling them into a gigantic war, 
under the pretense of waging it for the restoration of the Union, 
has led them to spend its millions of men and money for the en- 



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franchisernent of the slaves of the different states of the South. It 
seenis as if the leaders of the Republican party were unable to un- 
derstand the theory upon which our government is based— they ap- 
parently desire a consolidated nationality which the wisest and best 
of those statesmen, who assisted in creating our government, were 
most desirous to avoid ; and in order to retain the power in our 
own hands wc have, until the present infortunate time insisted 
upon, and the nations of Enrope have virtually admitted us to have 
the right to sit in judgment upon any fundamental change in the 
governmental systems of the nations of this continent. 

All mflTj ^ho will read this pamphlet know, that in the event 
of the rejUwi i-fe <n of the Union of these states, the so called Mexi- 
can Empire will be destroyed in much less time than it took to create 
it, and the reason is as apparent to all reflecting minds, as is the 
inevitable result. The systems of government are radically different 
and cannot exist, contigious to one another, without continued and 
devastating war . One or the other must in the nature of things 
acquire the preponderance, and that country which is the strongest 
will speedily absorb the other, whether Republic or Monarchy and 
compel the weaker to assimilate its institutions to those of the stron- 
ger. History, when enumerating the sins of this most sinful admini- 
stration, will record as among its blackest crimes the cowardly surren- 
der of this cherished doctrine of the American people . The limits 
of this pamphlet forbid our making extracts from the speeches and 
writings of numberless statesmen, who have declared this a funda- 
mental part of our theory of government . It is only neccessary to 
mention the "Monroe Doctrine" to any well informed American 
citizen in order to secure his assent at once to the principle [upon 
which it is founded — and his condemnation of the men who have 
so recklessly assented to its repeal. — It is fortunate for us that we 
have one more resort to the ballot box through which their is a 
possibility of remedying this giant wrong, before Republican insti- 
tutions shall have become so completely destroyed, as to render such 
peaceful remedy impossible. Another year of Abraham Lincoln's 
<0h\e, and the right of suffrage would be destroyed throughout the 
North, under the plea of military neccessity, which has been the 
cloak of so many iniquities. 

Chapter "V. 



Who are the Traitors? 

The people of this country are rapidly becoming con- 
vinced who the treators really are, from whose action we have 
to fear the permanent disruption of these states. They are' 
commencing to understand what alas ! so many of them have 
not comprehended, the plain fact, that we are a confedera- 
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for certain distinct and clearly defined objects, enumerated 
in our constitution, and not what the leading minds of this 
administration are endeavoring to bring about viz : a conso- 
lidated government. It is well for us and our posterity, and 
a cause for rejoicing to all lovers of constitutional govern- 
ment throughout the world, that the people of these north- 
ern states irrespective of party, have finally awakened to a 
just sense of the iniquitous purposes of an administrarion, 
which has done all in its power to destroy the institutions 
they were solemnly pledged to protect and preserve. —A list 
of the acts committed by these men, would disgrace and put 
shame upon the record of the most absolute tyrant whose 
memory is cursed by all men now. — Many persons were ar- 
rested and imprisoned by the mere orders of members of the 
cabinet, or by military authority under the pretence of mili- 
tary necessity — and who were taken from their homes in 
communities, which were not only undisturbed by the pre- 
sence of a public enemy, but which were putting forth all 
their energies to furnish men and money to preserve the in- 
tegrity of constitutional government They were arrested 
without legal warrant and imprisoned without even the forms 
of law ; they were continued in confinement, and denied the 
right of the vilest criminal, through even a pretended trial un- 
der military law, and when their discharge was effected as in 
some instances was the case, through the force of public con- 
demnation of such outrages, they were dismissed without 
being informed of the cause of their arrest ! In nearly all of 
these cases, it wes established that they had been informed 
upon by spies for speaking the truth in reference to the ille- 
gal acts of a vile administration, or had dared to write in 
defence of constitutional order. Men were openly insulted 
as traitors for questioning the wisdom of the acts of those 
elevated to power by accident, and who, as the result has 
demonstrated, were using it to destroy, instead ef protect- 
ing the government, — and not one, but hundreds and even 
thousands, have been incarcerated in dungeons under such 
pretences of treason. — Nearly two millions of men have been 
brought in battle array against their brethren, by those now 
in power, upon the false pretence that they were to figlrt for 
the preservation of the constitution, or have been forced into 
the ranks against their will, and in violation of the rights 



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secured by that instrument to the states. They have filled 
unnumbered homes with mourning and desolation, for the 
now openly avowed purpose of freeing the slaves of the 
South, and the power to do which, was, in the commence- 
ment, solemnly disclaimed by President Lincoln in official 
declaiations, and by Secretary Seward, under his direction, 
in his correspondence with foreign nations. No armies could 
have been created, nor any adsquate means obtained from 
the people for their creation, could they have forseen in ad- 
vance the infamous purposes to which both have been applied 
by the perjured scoundrels who brought such rum upon the 
best government and happiest people the world had ever 
seen. — Our commerce, which before had whitened every 
sea, is destroyed, and other flags than our own are now nec- 
cessary to protect the crippled remnant of a commercial in- 
terest, which ranked foremost among the first The cruisers 
of those, who would never have been our enemies, had it 
not been for the acts of the Lincoln dynasty, roam undist- 
urbed over the high seas and blockade our harbors with entire 
impunicy. Imbicility in the head of the Nav37-Dcpartment is 
added to the long list of crimes which history will fasten 
upon an administration, which is strong only for the destruc- 
tion of the country, and whose only wisdom lies in the cun- 
ning to deceive it. With a million of men in arms, and re- 
sources such as were never before lavished with like bound- 
less generosity by any people, the Indian tribes upon our 
borders, have repeated the barbarities which reddened the 
pages of our earlier history, and have not only gone unpun 
ished, but are to day more openly defiant than ever, and are 
driving our settlers along a frontier over a thousand miles in 
extent, to the protection of the forts and larger towns. 
These territories which were so rapidly filling up with enter- 
prising and industrious citizens, are in danger of being de- 
populated, and their inhabitants are compelled to desert the 
avocations of peace, and band together for the preservation 
cf their lives, without aid from the imbeciles at Washington. 
The time was, when with an army of not over 14,000 men, 
under wise Democratic administration, our borders were 
secure, and single emigrants could safely cross the plains to 
the Pacific. r 

Our currency, which was but three short years ago like 
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least two dollars and a half mu Q t be paid for that, which one » 
Dollar in gold will purchase, and the time is not distant when 
it will be as worthless as the paper on which it is printed by 
countless millions. The traditionul policy of the country, 
dearer to an American, then almost any other, has been 
treated with cool contempt, by European Monarchs, and an 
Emperor reigns in Mexico, and occopies a throne created, 
not only without remonstrance, but with the consent of the 
wretched administration of Abraham Lincoln. While the 
people of these states are being bankrupted and ruined more 
rapidly than any other recorded in history, the usual ac- 
eompaniements of their destruction, in eontractores suddenly 
enriched, gigantic frauds by which millions are taken from 
the public treasury, and unnumbered acts of knavery under 
the cloak of official position, are not wanting to fill up the 
gloomy catalogue cf sins by which those in power are earn- 
ing the detestation of their countrymen. The limits of this 
pamphlet forbid even a brief enumeration of those acts for 
which we now arraign Abraham Lincoln a.t the bar o{ public 
opinion. But there has nothing been left undone, which when 
done was calculated to destroy this government. Give the 
imagination full scope in collating the causes, which, situa- 
ted as we were when Lincoln was elected, would lead Co 
inevitable ruin the great and flourishing country over which 
he was choosen chief magistrate, and read the history of the 
last three years, and you will find them all detailed and all 
chargeable upon the head of the man Abraham Lincoln. 
Those who have steadily opposed his measures and policy are 
not traitors to their country, they are and have been the 
defenders of the constitution, and history will declare as we 
now do, that it is Lincoln and those who have aided and as- 
sisted him in his nefarious shemes, who are the traitors to 
the couutry and the enemies of republican government. He 
is the very high priest of high treason, and has made the 
memory of Benedict Arnold respectable. But the fiat has 
gone forth, and an outraged people will by placing a Demo- 
cratic president in his stead make one more effort for the 
restoration of peace, constitutional order, and the reunion of 
these states. 



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Our duty, and McClellan's Record. 

Our whole country is at stake ; republican institutions 
are now on the point of being re-established upon a basis 
which must last for ages, or of being destroyed forever. This 
is the alternative now presented to us, but fortunately the 
remedy is in our own hands. 

Our fathers, by their blood and treasure, secured to us a 
better one than can be secured by a resort to the bavonet or 
tbe bullett ; by transmitting to us the power of changing 
our rulers by the ballot box, they conferred upon the present 
generation the greatest boon they could possibly have granted 
it. 

We are now called upon to exercise the high privilege 
which has decended to us, and if our voice could reach the 
ear and touch the heart and conscience of every voter in this 
land we would arouse them to the carrying ont the inten- 
tions of the framers of our constitution* A government crea- 
ted by compromise cannot be saved by the sword alone. The 
patriots of the revolution were well aware that strife would 
lead to disunion, and warned us against it most solemnly. 
We have tried strife, and we see the result, Let us attempt 
to reform the Union in the same spirit which led our fathers 
to create it, and if we do so, we shall succeed. No other party 
than the Democracy can*hope to accomplish such result, but 
it is in our power to save the Union. We are free and un- 
trammeled, and the South will gladly meet us half way in 
our efforts to restore peace to the land. It behoves every man 
therefore to exert himself to the utmost, and leave no stone 
unturned, which will aid in adding strength to the party of 
the Union. 

When men question the patriotism or the statesmanship 
of the eminent general who is now the leader of our party, 
refer them to the following extract faom his letters, and re- 
port as printed by order of Congress They, in a few and brief 
flentenes embody the platform of the Democratic party to 
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"The true issue for which we are fighting is the preser- 
vation of the Union, and upholding the laws of the general 
government. — Instructions to Gen. Burnside, January 7, 
1862. 

"We are fighting solely for the integrity of the Union, to 
uphold the power of our national government, and to restore 
to the nation the blessings of peace and good order. — Instruc- 
tions to Gen. Halleck, November 11. 1861. 

"You will please eonstautiy to bear in mind the precise 
issue for which we are fighting ; that issue is the preservation 
of the Union and the restoration of the full authority of the 
general government over all portions of our territory. — Instruc- 
tions to Gen. Buell, November 7, 1861. 

"We shall most readily suppress this rebellion and restore 
the authority of the government by religiously respecting the 
constitutional rights of all. — Instructions to Gen. Buell, No- 
cumber 7, 1861. 

'•Be careful so to treat the unarmed inhabitants as to 
contract, not widen the breach existing between us and the 
rebels. — Instructions to Gen. Buell, November 12, 1861 

"I have always found that it is the tendency of subordi. 
nates to make vexatious arrests on mere suspicion — Instruc- 
tions to Gen Buell, November 12, 1861. 

"Say as little as possible about politics or the negro. — 
Instructions to Gen, Burnside, January 7, 1662. 

"The unity of this nation, the preservation of our insti- 
tutions, are so dear to me that I have willingly sacrificed my 
private happiness with the single object of doing my duty to 
my country. — Letter to Secretary Cameron, October 1861. 

"Whatever the determination of the government may be, 
I will do the best I can with the Army of the Potomac, and 
will share its fate, whatever may be the task imposed upon 
me. — Letter to Secretary Cameron, October, 1861. 

"Neither confiscation of property, political executions of 
persons, territorial organization of states, nor forcible abo- 
lition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment. — 
Letter to President Lincoln, July 7, 1862 

"In prosecuting this war, all private property and unar- 
med persons should be strictly protected, subject to the nec- 
essity of military operations — Letter to the President, July 
6, 1862. 



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"Military arrests should not be tolerated, except in pla- 
ces where active hostilities exist ; and oaths, not required by 
enactments constitutionally made, should be neither deman- 
ded nor received. — Letter to the President, July 7, 1862. 

"A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, 
will rapidly disintegrate our present armies. — Letter to the 
President, July 7, 1862. 

'♦If it is not deemed best to intrust me with the command 
even my own army, I simply ask to be permitted to share 
their fate on the field of battle. — Dispatch to Gen. Halleck, 
August 30, 1862. 

"In the arrangement and conduct of campaigns the direc- 
tion should be left to professional soldiers. — Gen. McClel- 
lan y s Report 

"By pursuing the political course I have always advised, 
it is possible to bring about a permanent restoration of the 
Union— a reunion by which the rights of both sections shall 
be preserved, and by which both parties shall preserve their 
self-respect, while they respect each other. — Gen. McCleU 
lan's Report. 

"I am devoutly grateful to God that my last campaign was 
crowned with a victory which saved the nation from the great- 
est peril it had then undergone — Gen. McClellan's Report. 

•'At such a time as thisj and in such a struggle, political 
partisanship should be merged in a true and brave patriotism, 
which thinks only of the good of the whole country. — General 
McClellan's West Point Oration. 

With these sentences inscribed upon our banners, we 
will march on to victory — but in order to ensure it, every 
Democrat in the country should, from this time forth, exert 
himself to the utmost in order to secure that result, and with 
it the reorganization of our country, and the permancy of 
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